More Exhibitions at ORTHUNGA
Similar Exhibitions
Guestbook
Press Release
“The world was on fire and no one could save me but you”. So begins the iconic pop song – quietly and dramatically – that saturates this exhibition. The song is Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist’s version of the melancholic 1989 love ballad Wicked Game by Chris Isaak. While Isaak croons steadily and maintains the tension on the beach in the original music video, Rist takes it a step further – into the water – in her more desperate interpretation in the now equally iconic 1996 video installation Sip My Ocean.
The unruliness of the ocean and of love – or, let’s just say, emotional life altogether – has been linked at least since antiquity, when Venus, the goddess of love in Western mythology, was famously born from the sea. In Pipilotti Rist’s work, we move up and down through the surface of the water – the symbolically and psychologically charged membrane between visible and invisible terrain. The video is filmed in relatively shallow water, but emotionally, it takes us into the...More
Metadata
Claims
Press Release
“The world was on fire and no one could save me but you”. So begins the iconic pop song – quietly and dramatically – that saturates this exhibition. The song is Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist’s version of the melancholic 1989 love ballad Wicked Game by Chris Isaak. While Isaak croons steadily and maintains the tension on the beach in the original music video, Rist takes it a step further – into the water – in her more desperate interpretation in the now equally iconic 1996 video installation Sip My Ocean.
The unruliness of the ocean and of love – or, let’s just say, emotional life altogether – has been linked at least since antiquity, when Venus, the goddess of love in Western mythology, was famously born from the sea. In Pipilotti Rist’s work, we move up and down through the surface of the water – the symbolically and psychologically charged membrane between visible and invisible terrain. The video is filmed in relatively shallow water, but emotionally, it takes us into the...More
More Exhibitions at ORTHUNGA
Similar Exhibitions
